=app-shells/bash-5.0_p17 has a dependency on libreadline.so.8, but puppet-admin is a binary package that has a dependency on libreadline.so.7. The puppet admin package is actually an extraction of the Debian buster package.

The final result of this was I updated the puppet-agent package in my …

New genkernel, and I found that my kernel, System.map and initramfs were no longer in the same order as before, causing problems with my grub configuration. I considered rebuilding some old kernels (just to have a fallback), or just getting rid of the old kernels... and then I decided …

I had to remove virtual/pam today as part of the Gentoo FreeBSD removal, as it is masked. See bug #697630. Unfortunately this will cause your next emerge to fail, as many of the things you've installed may have a dependency on virtual/pam and not sys-libs/pam, and it …

Somehow, during the upgrade from libvirt 4.1 to 4.3, I was having a problem building and installing the new libvirt, getting errors such as the following:

qemu_monitor_json.c:(.text+0x2de6): undefined reference to `virJSONValueGetType' ./.libs/libvirt_driver_qemu_impl.a(libvirt_driver_qemu_impl_la-qemu_monitor_json.o):
qemu_monitor_json.c:(.text+0x58b6): more undefined references to `virJSONValueGetType …

HBO Go stopped working for me on Linux recently (actually it might not have been super recent, I don't use it that often). Apparently a DRM problem with Flash 11.2.x on Gentoo (and other Linux versions I'm assuming), I was able to get it working again by emerging …

We were having some problems with HTTP POST performance from the West coast to a tomcat server farm on the East coast. None of these problems showed up locally (between two hosts in the same datacenter.) The latency between West and East coast sites is on the order of 70ms …

Looks like it's finally time to migrate to sys-fs/eudev. udev 197 was unmasked today on amd64, and I would rather not go down that path.

At least I have an alternative, so I don't have to go it alone.

I ended up having to use kmod, instead of module-init-tools …

Starting on a new Gentoo box, I was putting together a new firewall setup, and I thought I'd put my hacked down firewall setup script here so I'll have something to start with next time. I used to try some of the other "higher level" tools to generate my firewall …

Today, I had to enable python and perl USE flags globally in /etc/make.conf. I guess Gentoo changed the default setting for these flags. Personally I like having the kind of built-in tools and scripts that these provide, so I turned them on. Plus, enabling these flags avoided having …

This is a gentoo problem I hadn't seen before:

Building CXX object qt4/src/CMakeFiles/poppler-qt4.dir/poppler-ps-converter.cc.o
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: warning: libopenjpeg.so.2, needed by /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.13, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/lib …